A Green Lantern Poster that kicks ass!

Hey folks, Harry here... Right now... I'm dying for CAPTAIN AMERICA. That trailer just owns me. I love it. Whereas that first GREEN LANTERN trailer felt... soft. As though it was scared to really unleash - of course they were early in the effects game back then, but still. It wasn't anywhere near Cap or THOR. Meanwhile, THOR's posters have been a bit underwhelming. That said, I like this GREEN LANTERN poster that was just released at WONDERCON - and damn that looks like a GREEN LANTERN movie. Right?

John Belishi IS Aquaman!!
Norm McDonald IS Batman!!
Dana Carvey IS Magneto!!
Rita Rudner IS Catwoman!!
Hes always gonna be just a caddyshack era bill murray wannabe with an obsession with his own physique.

Otherwise, I think the movie has a hell of a lot of potential. I'm a HUGE GL fan, so the fact that we're getting a big-budget sci-fi GL movie to include the Corps, the Guardians, Oa, Sinestro, etc. is just too cool.

As in "Sucks a lot of..."
What the hell is it with "comic fans" who fall all over themselves to applaud the dreck that's being put out as faithful adaptions.
Yes, Green Lantern kicks ass.
I wish he was on that poster instead of Ryan Reynolds and that totally stupid looking mask and suit.

Hal Jordan is able to control the power of the ring thanks to his extreme willpower.
Ryan Reynolds does not exude "extreme willpower" to me.
If the ring was powered by "cocky sarcasm", THEN it might make sense...

this, Thor, and Captain America all look terrible.
This is the summer superhero/comic movies begin to die a slow death. The Spidey reboot will kill them off, and Nolan will conclude not only his brilliant trilogy, but also the era of superhero/comic movies.
I've had a great ride, but for every good/great superhero movie there have been 3-4 awful ones.

....I'm still laughing as I write this.....
I just think its funny... we are to assume the movie will actually rock cause of this??
This looks kick ass...??? Perhaps I'm a lil' underwhelmed because I'm not too familiar with this property. But I do know two things from the poster....
1. No matter how shiny you make the suit. No Matter how Green you make the suit.. One can not refrain from grimacing knowing a goofy ass Ryan Reynolds is behind the spandex.
2. Less is sometimes more... Remember one of the first Dark Knight posters released? The one batman is standing; looking outside the office window. Now that was KICK ASS!).
All kidding aside ...I wished the best of luck to this movie. I'm actually a fan of Martin Campbell. Perhaps he'll make a good movie, considering it's leading star.
However, the last time I checked Ryan Reynolds is still in it...plzzz.

I'm a huge GL fan, but a lot of the design choices don't seem to inspire confidence. But the one thing that makes me optimistic despite everything is that Martin Campbell's directing. He directed Mask of Zorro and Casino Royale. . .and if that doesn't inspire confidence, I don't know what would.
Mask of Zorro is the perfect swashbuckling adventure in the same vein as those old Errol Flynn movies. It took swordfighting, romance, action, and revenge, and grafted everything into an awesomely enjoyable film. And Casino Royale managed to be similarly enjoyable, despite the utter disaster that was practically every Bond movie before it.
With that kind of filmography at his back, I don't see how Campbell would let this film suck. I mean, who knows. Maybe he just wants an easy paycheck. But, Mask of Zorro. And Casino Royale.
Could Green Lantern really be that bad. . .?

The cgi costume still doesn't look good. They should've made a practical suit that is illuminated by cgi.
Blake Lively was a big miscast as Carol Ferris. Mark Strong looks like he's going to own this movie portraying Sinestro.

From a GL fan:
1) The suit. The silver age Hal Jordan GL suit is iconic. No need to change it for change's sake. "Look, we have CGI tools... let's just paint the suit on. While we're at it, what if we..."
2) Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan. Should have been Bradley Cooper.
3) Blake Lively as Carol Ferris. Should have been Keri Russell.
You know these truths, man.

It should possess an unearthly feel to it, something that could not possibly be homemade like a bat-suit or spider-man costume and I think alien and unearthly is what they're aiming for with this costume

... til I, you know, see the movie.
I loved the poster for Spider-Man 3... and that film could have been better.
And while it's true the average moviegoer doesn't know who Green Lantern is- so what? They probably never heard of Iron Man either before the first film, and that made over $300 million. Because it was great.
If GL is a good movie, people will go. It's pretty much that simple.

...where he is standing there in his CGI costume flexing for his roommate for an uncomfortable amount of time--that right there let me know that this movie wasn't going to be quite what I'd like. It's going to be two hours of Ryan Reynolds pausing a few beats after a bad line reading to allow time for audience laughter that won't be there.
That's the most uncomfortable silence of all--the kind you hear during unfunny comedies or unexciting action films or unromantic romances. The director gives the audience time to recover from emotional responses that aren't actually happening, and you become more self consciously aware than ever of how the film just isn't working for you.
But on the plus side, it will have an overdose of cheap, rushed CGI. The only thing less believable and involving than the flat CGI characters will be the performance of Blake Lively. This will make more money than the Green Hornet, but not much.

is not kicked in the least. And for some reason im not too pumped for this summer lineup either. When is Tree of Life coming out again? And freakin Bane in 2012! Man oh man! This movie looks like its gonna suck pretty bad though.

...they were able to reuse the suit they used in the 97' Spawn movie!!! They just spray painted in the green lines on the black suit!!!
HA!!! I didn't "otherworldly" was code for shitty CGI...who knew???

Seriously, it looks as god awful as everything else I've seen from or about this abortion. I won't go as far as to say it's going to bomb-there's a lot of morons out there who pay to see crap-but I sincerely hope my fellow geeks aren't part of the crowd! Green Lantern and all of geekdom deserve better than this garbage! HUZZAH!

WTF is going on here? Is every poster released super-awesome? All I see are a bunch of boring-ass photoshop jobs in this latest bunch you people have posted for us.
And I'm usually 1/3 as grumpy/hateful/negative as most of the TB'ers... But fuck... these posters are not impressive in the least.

I love the cicely of green Lantern, but my knowledge is a bit dodgy. Was not Parallax an evil incarnation of Hal Jordan that destroyed Oa? I only ask because apparently, he's to be one of the villains-which, unless it's a 4 hour film, means they're totally ass fucking the canon of the character...please ease my mind and tell me I'm wrong...

I would have gone a different direction on the costume. probably on the casting, as well.
it has yet to WOW me...and knowing the main villain is parallax is too complicated if you are going to throw in hammond AND the NASA autopsy of abin sur....

would EVER give anybody BUT an AMERICAN a Green Lantern ring.
You REALLY want a Canadian or French dude as your space police representative?
Americans just GET what it means to be able to will ultimate power into existence...Get used to it UNIVERSE...

Maybe the filmmakers are going with the more recent comic premise that the Lantern uniform is energy, rather than any fabric. Wonder if they will have the GL chest symbol shining/reflecting above the costume, like in the comics. That might look cool. I still have hopes for this movie.

If Abin Sur had crash landed in the jungles of Africa in the 1960's, and he ordered his ring to find the nearest man without fear, we would have had a rainforest paleolithic native who believed in demons and snake spirits as our Green Lantern...Those mother fuckers were not scared of ANYTHING!!!!

the poster doesn't "wow" me and neither did the trailers. I like the animated film Warner Brothers came out with a few years ago and I didn't see a need for a live-action version.
I also felt Ryan Reynolds was coming off as too comical for this project. I almost felt like I was watching Ben Stiller in the role instead (based on the trailers).
I also haven't been wowed by the Thor footage I have seen and the "making of" footage I saw was weak.
Captain America is the only super-hero film I am very anxious to see this summer. All others have me hesitant.

.....Photoshop FTW!!!
Well not really for the win; more like Photoshop Epic failure.
The perfect visual accompaniment for .......
I KNOW, RIGHT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
It seems like we'll never get the live action Superhero with the glowy or all-white eyes like in the comics - or rather that little infrared gizmo thingamajig that Batman used in TDK is the closest we'll ever get.
So far all attempts have been failures - from Storm in X-Men, to Batman, to now Green Lantern.
You would have though with a full CGI suit that if any movie was going to faithfully adapt the glowy eyes look, that GL would have been it.
Actually, Iron Man did it, but that was kind of a given, considering the fact that his helmet is mechanical.
Just once, I'd love to see a comic-book superhero super-faithfully represented as he is in the comics.
The closest for me ever was the original Superman movie.
Spiderman came close but the raised webbing ruined it - and the new re-boot massacres the suit completely..

he's so wrong for the part. And yes, i said the same thing about Downey before seeing Ironman.
however, RR is no RDJ.
i need to see more footage of the film before casting a decision on wether or not to see this on opening day.
And for the record, GL is one of my favorite DC heroes.

seems like a lot of trouble to go through. not sure why even a blue or green mask they could have keyed out and replaced with digital, or even just a black mask, or better yet, NO mask, would have been better...
seems like the more sense the suit makes as an energy suit, mimics his anatomy, etc., the less sense his mask makes. I mean, if he needs to protect his identity, why not go full mask? a helmet of some sort? I don't know...I'd have to see it in action, but that mask just looks weird. and makes less and less sense as time goes on.
but, then again, it's a movie about space cops who wear magic rings and wear green tights, and his space buddies are a space-pig cop and a space-chicken cop.
that's right. the movie will probably be cool as hell. and it will co-star, and without irony...a space chicken.
(not to mention other green lanterns include: an amoeba, an entire planet...what the hell. bring it on!)

My understanding is that Jordan is eventually "infected" by Parallax and becomes evil. What you said occurs and after him briefly becoming good again to make a sacrifice that ends his life. Now remember that they think in trilogies in the biz. The above might actually be the way they end the 3rd film, which would be interesting. I KNOW!! RIGHT???!!

It does suggest a more serious tone than the trailer, but that was actual footage of the film, this is a piece of artwork. Plus, I think WB are in damage control now since the first trailer had so many detractors, with complaints focused on the humor. Doesn't mean they changed the movie, just the marketing. Plus, I think they could have done better with the look of the costume.
We'll see. I hope that the first trailer was just an error of which tone they chose to emphasize, and that the movie DOES have a ton of awesome stuff in it.
I'm sure they are scrambling, worrying about how to sell the mainstream on this concept of weird alien guys who protect the universe with glowy power rings. They shouldn't be worried, but you know they are.. for some reason they think people can't handle stuff that is too "out there" or imaginative. For the same reason they seriously considered Jack Black for this role at one point (remember that?)

Im with Tommyleespenis (that doesn't sound right typing that) but anyway they're an inter galactic police force. I'm not going to be surprise if there not wearing a uniform that is made from material that can be found on earth, to me kinda makes more sense that their wearing something more alien like.

Ryan Reynolds can't help playing everything as a joke and he's got the stupidest shaped head for a superhero so I'll happily skip this and wait for a download.
Henry Cavill should have gotten this part, he aint Superman but he would have been a good Hal Jordan.

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But yeah I totally agree, I'm really over all the constant nerd rage, and whining on every single topic here. I can literally see their fat greasy asses sitting in front of their computer screaming for their mom to get the another Mt Dew Code Red. But they need a break from WOW I guess

Why don't you wait until you see how his character develops throughout the movie...who knows..maybe by the time it's over he'll be the Hal Jordan you're wanting him to be.
OR you could do this.
Keep crying about everything all the time and then play the "why can't the studios get this right!" card.
OR
Get YOUR ass into film making and make a fucking movie.
Sure, we all have the right to express our opinions..but when did we all become better casting directors, story writers and directors than 98% of Hollywood?

Why don't you assholes who keep calling Harry a sellout do yourselves a favor. Look at ALL THE OTHER POSITIVE REVIEWS OF THE NEW FOOTAGE SHOWN AT WONDERCON...you can find them ALL OVER THE INTERNET.
Jesus.

True. It's just that some of us picture Reynolds in that fat suit in that crap movie where he was the record producer with Anna Faris. But people don't have an intellectual right to piss on his performance based on "I KNOW!! RIGHT??" I'm trusting that he'll bring a bit of gravitas to GL and develop the character. Hopefully Campbell has shown some discipline when directing Reynolds and not allowed for cute improvisation. I mean, look at Bond in Casino Royale. Fuckin' stoic.

and DC in general. I am going to give Ryan and the creators the benefit of the doubt. So many times a comic flick looked to suck, but somehow managed to be palatable. RR can pull this off like RDJ in IM. Its plausible dorks.

...(as others have alluded to before) ART. And by that I mean painted posters that aren't simple photos accentuated with Photoshop.
I realize some of what we see above originates with something other than a mouse-click (Without Ryan Reynolds, the work is intriguing), and I'm not saying that there isn't some decent work that's still being done in the movie poster business...but mostly the action blockbuster stuff is uninspiring.
But maybe I'm out of touch? Perhaps some of the old school work would look dated to an audience of adolescents and 20-somethings (a group which I am not a part of). However, to these ancient eyes, both this and the Thor posters look somehow cheap and lack personality or flair of the work of 20, or even 30 years ago or more.
Thor's I think, are particularly hindered by a lack of imagination (the marketing, while it may have been effective in the past, is something I've seen too often in recent years, Transformers comes to mind).
If any of these films are indeed the epic adventures that I'm hoping for, then none of these new superhero posters are doing a good job. Cap's comes the closest to working because of a moody darkness that's unexpected.

In your attempt to make this film look bad buy picking on what little we've seen of the film as of yet. I couldn't picture Michal Keaton as Batman either. But with the right director a guy in a mask can become that hero. I have never seen this guy in anything. But if he's jumping to another kind of film that can be a clean slate. I don't know how this film will turn out but you guys don't either. Not on what little we've been given so far.

....I still have some hope for this due to the work of Martin Campbell. In fact, due to his record with escapist adventure (Bond, Zorro) to me he seems like a great fit.
As much as people are going on about Kenneth Bran., his past doesn't necessarily translate as well to juggling the tones and the action beats of Thor. The sweep, sure, but then I see the trailers, that's one thing that's missing.
I still think Cap will succeed, Green Lantern will bring it home unexpectedly, and Thor will serve up turd-topping for your popcorn.

Oh yes, and while I agree Reynolds SEEMS far more suited for the role of The Flash, all the range and depth (along with the natural charisma he's got in spades) he needs to carry an epic movie like this is on display in "Buried." 90 minutes of him alone in a box, and not one false move. My eyes were GLUED.
If that doesn't speak to his potential in this (cheesy masks notwithstanding), I don't know what does.

Keaton was awful as Wayne/Batman. You aren't helping your argument with that and Leger channeling Edward G Robinson as the Joker was no better than Nicholson's turn in the role. If anything Jack just being himself was better than Ledgers contrived horse-shit that only seemed interesting because the rest of the movie was a boring procedural cop show.

What a treasure trove of insight these talkback forum give. Not about the movie, of course, but the people who populate this place. You actually FEEL worse for reading such bitterness here. Are your lives that disappointing? So much hatred toward so many people involved in entertainment and movies.
Do you know what the difference between these negative TB'ers and the people they hate? One group have lives and are making movies...one project after another. And they love what they are doing.
And the other group spills venom with their hatred of the successful group on internet forums like this.
Sorry guys, you've made your choice and continue to perpetuate your status. And as history has continually proven, you will NEVER rise above this. Thank God you're a small minority.

Harry how much is DC paying you to actually say you like this? I've waited for a GL movie all my life since seeing the great works of Gil Kane and Neal Adams. This aint it. I think this will be a huge flop for Warners. I feel that Thor will be a flop too. I do have high hopes for Cap, but that is the kid in me I guess.

Harry how much is DC paying you to actually say you like this? I've waited for a GL movie all my life since seeing the great works of Gil Kane and Neal Adams. This aint it. I think this will be a huge flop for Warners. I feel that Thor will be a flop too. I do have high hopes for Cap, but that is the kid in me I guess.

because I still hope for a Justice League film, and we need someone to stand up to Bruce Wayne/Batman who isn't Superman. Hal Jordan/Green Lantern is a policeman and a team player for the oldest law-enforcers in the Galaxy; Bruce Wayne/Batman is a potentially psychotic rogue cop. I hope Nolan makes Batman a real bastard in the the next episode!

Sorry Bucko but myself and many movie critics disagree with you. I remember how everyone back then was so surprised that Keaton did Batman so well. Even to this day some prefer Keaton's Batman to Bales. I like the Bale movie myself but felt that the Keaton movie had more heart.

are almost not worth reading anymore as they're spamed by little fanboy trolls who always don't like anything. For the smallest of reasons. How many times have you read " This is going to suck! " Only to have the item turn out to be a well received movie or tv show? This movie could be good or bad because we haven't been given enough to decide. So I'm siding on it'll probably be good because you negative fanboys are almost always wrong.

all month long io9 is has been hosting a poll for the "Best Science Fiction films of all time" and it's down to Empire Strikes Back vs whichever wins between Serenity and Blade Runner. Serenity is currently winning and has been for the last several weeks against classics like Back to the Future and Terminator. I plea to you Blade Runner fans to get your ass over there and vote for Blade Runner! The Browncoats need to be taken down!

"How come he's not the Hal Jordan I know and love and he's too smarmy and cocky? How come wah wah wah!" Shut the fuck up. It's called a hero's journey. Every character has an arc. The person they are at the beginning of the film is different form the character they become at the end. That's why Han Solo shoots Greedo first, and then comes back to save Luke's ass. As a previous poster said, "learn to make your own fucking movie if you want to bitch so much. Fucking bitch ass tools.

Just can't take this seriously...<BR><BR> I mean , GL WITHOUT a neck beard ??!! FFS!!!! Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.............................................................................................................

Some of you need to look at some of the positives here... Sure the CGI suit looks off. Reynolds isn't perfect. BUUUUUT we have a GL movies that looks close to the comics. Remember... We almost had Jack Black as Green Lantern and the studio turning the franchise into a comedy. Reynolds was cast to get "regular" people into the theater. I'm willing to take that compromise for a story close to the comics and not some gagfest comedy film.

...He's still rocking that lame green lantern ring they sent him. I just imagine when his wife gives him a bath at night and tucks him into bed, she tries to convince him to maybe take it off for a couple of hours. He then probably proceeds to throw a huge hissy fit until he gets his way in the end though, pumping his fist in the air at another victory against mom.... i mean wifey.

I was at the Wonder Con panel yesterday and can say that the suit looked better than I'd expected. Some of the other special fx work looked a bit more forced. I've got higher expectations for this than for Captain America or Thor.

From An Earlier Post:
It is surprising to me that more people aren't into GL. Surprising because: A) GL pretty much dominates the DC Universe comics at the moment and, B) Martin Campbell is directing the damn thing! Great director. I think the movie looks great. I dig the trailer, and I think the next one will rock it out a little more. Maybe people haven't discovered the pure awesomeness of Hal Jordan. Maybe Warners needs to put it in people's faces a little more. We need some GL Happy Meals or something. Burger King needs to sell some cool GL glasses. GL is by no means a household name, but it shouldn't be that hard to sell the badass. GL was a Super Friend for Julius Schwartz's sake! There shouldn't be any more comparisons to Thor. GL looks like an epic sci-fi drama (yay!), while Thor looks like a Masters of the Universe remake. I'm pulling for GL more than any other summer flick because it seems that many aren't into it, and I think its going to rock. This is going to be a brand spanking new adventure hero, in a brand new movie. C'mon, how cool is that?! It ain't a goddamn reboot, and it ain't a goddamn sequel! I, for one, am looking forward to a new experience.
New Addendum: To me, Ryan Reynolds looks just like Gil Kane's take on the character of Hal Jordan, and that is super cool. Yes, Cap looks amazing and I can't wait - CAN'T WAIT - to see it, but I am way, way more intrigued by GL. Hands down. Cap looks just like the way I expected it to. The way I want it to. Cap should feel like Raiders or The Rocketeer, and it does (duh). However, there has never been a take on a full-on GL presentation. We've had Cap before - in two fairly decent TV movies; and we've had Thor (w/ Daredevil, if I remember correctly) in a pretty terrible Incredible Hulk TV movie. I don't know anybody who gives a shit about Thor, for that matter. Thor isn't anybody's favorite super-hero. Nobody I know, at least. GL is different kind of deal, and Warners is sinking a lot of dough into this. I think its time they started to push this a lot more. They're sticking close to the comics, but the art direction looks foreign to me, very strange - and I like that. When I was a kid, I remember thinking Krypton and The Fortress of Solitude looked like shit in Donner's Superman, before I saw the movie itself. Now, I couldn't imagine those films without that design sensibility. They've even adopted the look for the current comics, after many, many years. I have a feeling things will go the same way with GL. Also, I can't stress enough that Martin Campbell is a great, great filmmaker. Far and away, this is the film I am most looking forward to this summer.

A few months back those initial leaks of the suit looked HORRIBLE, though this doesn't look too shabby. The eye mask does still look a little shoddy though. That is the thing with CGI though, you can make it look great on film or you can make it look great as a still, but sometimes it is really hard to make it look great both ways...

.. too bad this has Ryan Reynolds in a photoshop looking mask and shitty costume instead of Nathan Fillion in a real Green Lantern uniform. I will probably still see this in theaters because I have kids, but I'm fairly certain my first words after walking out will be "That would have been so much better if only..."

He had two modes-way tooooo serious or way toooo goofy. There's no middle ground. That's what Hal Jordan needs-balance, and Reynolds doesn't have that. He was great as Wade Wilson until they buttfucked the deadpool character, he would be a great Flash, but I just don't buy him as Hal. It has nothing to do with emotion towards the actor, it's the suspension of belief. I look at this and see the goofball from waiting in a terrible CGI suit, I don't see GL

If you want Green Lantern like he is in the comics (or any DC hero for that matter) stick to the animation projects.
Movies and comics are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MEDIUMS people! Most heroes, with their clown-like costumes, ridiculous powers don't translate well to film in the first place.
So you cry until your favorite heroes come to the big screen and then you cry even more every time Green Lantern or your favorite character doesn't look exactly like he did in the comics.
All you whiny wanks who proudly proclaim you won't see GL are full of it because these dork movies are the only thing you have to live for.

its just.... not... Green lantern? i dont know what it is. this just does not feel right. the
mask does not look right- at all.
and i'm usually a sucker for any comic related movie. hope it looks better in motion.

It's a holdover from the old days. Domino masks were all the rage for a time, some characters eventually lost it(catwoman is one) and some characters just wouldn't be the same without it. In the comics it works, in movies it looks like Ryan Reynolds with a bit of flubber on his face.

as an intellectual property, Green Lantern is too ridiculous for film. This movie will bomb not because of the suit, or because of Reynolds, or the director, but because like Wonder Woman, it is one of those properties that simply cannot translate to screen.
This is why Whedon ditched the Wonder Woman project. Because when you combine the costume and premise with real life, they clash, as with many comic properties. So the solution is usually to 'real it up' a bit, which usually involves altering the origin to something the audience can relate to easier, and making the costume into something that gels more with real life.
In some cases, this is easy enough. It worked with X-Men, because you could merge the characters costumes into black leather without causing too much of an uproar. Iron Man works, because it's a robotic suit, you can do anything with it and stay within realistic constraints.
But the problem with some, like Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, is if you do away with the costume, and alter their origin stories, you've wandered too far away for it to be even considered Green Lantern or Wonder Woman.
Whedon realized this, and moved on. This guy tried to make it work. Now he's going to realize the error of his ways once this bombs, and bombs hard.
Trust me. The only people in the whole world, who are interested in a guy dressed in florescent green with a lone ranger mask and a magic ring that shoots ropes and hammers, are the people who are already die hard Green Lantern fans.

I'm not that familiar with the character, and the new trailer got me pumped.
I understand your point about merging the comic book world with the real world and the difficulties therein, but I think that changes don't always have to be that drastic - certainly not with Green Lantern - and the end result will work...at least when you have people as talented as Martin Campbell and some amazing production designers involved.
The bottom line is, I think a lot of people who weren't interested in this property will be after seeing the new trailer. And yes, a lot or the general populace. Anticipation will only build, and this will be one of the top three grossers of the summer, even if it isn't the best of the bunch.

What's up with that in the back?
And I'm sorry but, the suit is butt ugly, the mask is butt ugly. This movie bombing is going to scare Warner Bros into their deep cave again!
I'm still hoping it's good, but it's hard too.
What's wrong with WB? Wonder Woman and Green Lantern look more bad than good.
While Thor and Captain America look great!

"Legend of the Lone Ranger" in 1981. I went from King Kong to Star Wars to Close Encounters to Superman to Time After Time to Empire Strikes Back to ... The Legend of the Lone Ranger.
that's the first movie I saw in the theater as a child that sucked. It was a realization. Up until then I thought all movies in the theater were good.

I agree the new footage does make it look more interesting than before, but the problem it is going to run into is that in order to bring it to life, it had to use a shitload of CGI, and in the end will probably face a lot of criticism that it looks too cartoony.

I totally agree with the peeps here saying that comics and film are totally different medium (Alan Moore anyone?) ... <BR><BR>
I think that when I realized this was when I saw the CGI trailers for DC Universe Online, they where amazing, and just worked somehow, but the live action movies still seem off in some way ...<BR><BR>
That said I remember back when Alex Ross's Kingdom Come came out , I looked at Wonder Woman , and SuperMan and thought "Fuck me! Thats how they'll make these films in 15 years time "...<BR><BR>
Now....here we are , still being force fed this pop corn shite.......... Maybe it just can't work .But like the geek I am I live in hope......

I see what you're saying, but couldn't that apply to more or less *any* of the super heroes? Maybe not Iron Man cause that's technology (just nigh impossible technology), or Batman cause he's just a guy with wealth, gadgets, and ninja training (also ridiculous, but, you know what I mean), but Wonder Woman isn't really all that different from Superman (supernatural, godlike beings from an otherworldly place) and everyone LOVES Superman. I mean, yeah, I know, in terms of specifics they're very different, but at their heart, they're basically male and female versions of a similar type of character. And the XMen is just as ridiculous as them all, if not moreso. But mass audiences got with that and accepted it. I really think that all superheroes fall into the realm of the ridiculous.
Personally, I think GL is going to bomb because: 1) Mass audiences don't know much about him. 2) The trailer looked TERRIBLE. Not so much because the idea of a Cosmic Space Force with Power Rings is too much to accept.

He signed a Green lantern ring for me and aitographed one of his Green Lantern/solomon Grundy prints...made it out to "my friend Jim" got to chat it up with him for about 30 minutes while his wife and my wife talked about cats. He was a very nice guy and stopped and talked to all his fans....I hope this movie will at least be something he can be proud of...

To say that any of these Superhero movies are more probable or hold some degree of accessability because one guy uses a power ring instead of a hammer, or a suit of iron or climbs walls is just fucking stupid. If people can turn their brains off long enough to believe a man dressed as a bat can fight 12 guys and walk away - then they will believe anything. Green Lantern only asks you suspend belief on one major thing - that aliens exist. Once you get past that, you can go full steam. Hell, there are fuckers running around who think Star Wars holds the answers to all their life woes nowadays. If anything Green Lantern seems to me like they tried to make it more like Greatest American Hero - or vice versa, I'm not that familiar with when the Greatest American Hero was created - but the similarities are there. Alien gives guy a superpowered device and the guy now has no idea what is going on.

It looks so pasted-on (I'm sure it is). But they can to something with some shadows, indentions to help sell it a bit. Just looks floating and not even part of the picture.
I've seen Big Lots newspaper circulars with better compositing.

left side hugs the face to a point that the line from the cheekbone to the horizon change never causes a distinct change in perspective.
compare it to the right side of the face, the one with a greater degree of change...the mask actually rises from the face in outline. You can see a slight deformation in the ear as well (unless he's part elf, of course). That point of the ear should be rather well turned back which is why you don't see the well.
Also the mask seems to hide his eyebrows, though if only done via physical measures it would mean that his eyebrows are crazy low and super thin.
Otherwise the mask is exactly what a fucking mask is supposed to be. It's something that fucks up your ability to discern who the donner of said item is.
Granted, for this movie's purpose...it isn't.

You wonderful people do know the suit is a product of the ring right? So lets imagine an alien artifact giving a HUMAN a weapon that uses his willpower and whatever he can think of. This weapon is the most powerful in any comic verse if you great folks can wrap your minds around that. So the suit is secondary to how the weapon is portrayed.

He doesn't want to drool over it lest he be appropriately accused of being bought out and he doesn't want to bash it lest he lose all potential to be bought out.
I really have a feeling this movie will suck.

pupils and i made the mask darker around the edges and gave it a little drop shadow so it looks less fake.
It looks so much better like that...
Do i just put this down to a lazy poster or do i shun this movie all together ?
I still know very little on the green lantern so i probably won't care either way if it's good or bad.

this is one of those situations where its impossible to please all fans and non fans - like with superman returns - i hated the suit changes in that - if it aint broke dont fix it - here with gl its a similar deal - but they couldnt actually do classic gl in tights green mask and white gloves - people would laugh at it no matter who they cast - this seems like a good choice for his look - very sci fi - very unearthly - forces at work beyond comprehension - why not - the green energy, the ring etc - the suit is an extension - living energy based armor - i buy it - its a comic book after all

after the heavy brooding gloomy darkness that has been the rage since batman returns im ready for a change - even the iron man franchise is kinda "real world cold" - i like the darkness, but i really want to see some brightly lit wiz bang comic bookie eye candy - and shit theyre are a ton of aliens in the corps - im looking forward to this

Sorry. That poster is AWFUL. It's like they listened to how many people hated the costume and the WB people just enlarged the image. Maybe they secretly want people to hate this film. That costume is awful. The lantern is pretty bad too. Why did they have to change it?

I understand the decision - to make the suit look like its not clothe, but some form of plasma molded into a suit, but IMHO they did it the wrong way. They should have have Ryan wear a suit and mask and enhanced it with CGI instead of going completely CGI. They made alot of work for themsevles. In the new trailer I think the suit looks pretty good - the mask is still off.
And the new GL trailer pretty much kicks Thors ass. It has a large scope that the Thor trailer is sorely missing.
And not having Kat Dennings stupid idiotic comments is a plus too.
I thought the new trailer was fuckin great.

Warner Brothers really dropped the ball on this one. The movie looks great until you see Ryan Reynolds in that ugly costume. It's like... 'WHOA, that looks good!' Then you see Ryan Reynolds in that costume and its like someone is scratching fingernails on a blackboard. The design team really screwed up the costume and the lantern. It's very difficult to take this movie seriously. I'll see it, yea, but on dvd not in a theater. I think Harry is only saying the movie is great because WB sent him that ring. Which is cool. Too bad the movie isn't as cool as the ring.

SURELY by now you comic book fans know two things:
#1 -- film adaptations of comic book heroes are a crapshoot. There are all kinds of reasons that the right ingredients can still make for a disappointing movie.
#2 -- NEVER NEVER NEVER judge a film by its trailers or movie posters. They are unrelated more than they are related.
Or are we gonna go through this learning curve each and every time a new superhero movie comes out....

Holy hell if this is not a glimpse into what we are going to get when Snyder unleashes his version of Superman...
It will be so CG-heavy it will look incredibly fake.
It will be so gloss-coated everything will look Photoshopped.
And it will feature cheesy dialog a.k.a. "I know, right?!!"
That's what we are getting with this Green Lantern flick. And I fear that's what we're going to get with Snyder's Superman.
Fasten your seat belts 'cause it's gonna suck to be a Superman fan next year.

... but gee, last time I checked, this was a place to come and either cheer or bitch about geek-related stuff. Stuff that is -- in the grand scheme of things -- not important at all. But we still like to discuss it anyway.